Ye Qingxue frowned.

Although Min's crimes have been confirmed, perhaps today is not the best time to hand her over to the emperor for questioning.

If she were to completely break ties now, the Marquis's mansion might be destroyed as a result, and she and her father could avenge their great grudge. But if that were to happen, perhaps everyone in the Marquis's mansion would only want to die, or only want to fight her to the death. How could she possibly uncover more of the truth then?

Perhaps, keeping Min's life alive and letting her watch helplessly as her beloved children's lives crumbled inch by inch would be a good form of torment and punishment.

Letting Min die like this is too easy for her.

After a moment's thought, Ye Qingxue gave a cold laugh and asked, "If you don't hand over Madam Min, how do you plan to deal with the people sent by the Emperor? Are you going to hand me over? Am I the one who is committing treason? Am I the one with countless crimes?"

Everyone was stumped by this question.

They looked at each other in bewilderment.

Madam Min knew perfectly well that her elder brother had entered the palace twice and knelt in the Imperial Study for a long time before he finally managed to persuade the Emperor to issue an edict to send people to the Marquis's residence to thoroughly investigate the truth and arrest and execute Ye Qingxue.

But now, if she doesn't want to be arrested and executed by the emperor's men, she has to come up with a brilliant way to make the people the emperor sent go back.

Ye Cunjin gritted his teeth, enduring the pain in his knees, and stepped forward, saying, "The people sent by the Emperor must be outside the door by now. I can go out and tell them that this is all a misunderstanding, and that Sister Qingxue has never done anything rebellious."

The former "bitch" has now become "Sister Qingxue".

Ye Qingxue raised an eyebrow, her eyes filled with even more mockery than before: "Forcing your mother to hang herself, cutting off your second uncle's arm, burning down Wanxiang Hall, and making your grandmother faint from anger, isn't that utterly rebellious?"

Ye Cunjin's forehead veins bulged, but what he said was: "My mother has been in poor health for many years. Unable to bear the torment of illness, she wanted to follow my father in death, but my sister Qingxue discovered her and saved her in time."

She added, "My second uncle was resting in the house when he was bitten by a poisonous snake that had just awakened in spring. To save his life, my sister Qingxue had no choice but to cut off his arm. Otherwise, the venom would have spread throughout his body and there would have been no cure."

He also said, "As for Sister Qingxue burning down Wanxiang Hall... it was because she was worried that there were more poisonous snakes in Wanxiang Hall. Burning it all down was entirely to prevent the poisonous snakes from entering again and threatening other people's lives."

“Grandmother was unaware of the truth and thought that Second Uncle had been burned to death in Wanxiang Hall. She fainted due to excessive grief, and it had nothing to do with Sister Qingxue.”

These words... are truly astounding! Ye Qingxue's smile deepened, but it also grew colder!

The old lady, Madam Zhou, and Madam Min nodded repeatedly, quite satisfied with the reasons given by Ye Cunjin.

Ye Cunjin continued, "We misunderstood Qingxue before. You have never been a rebellious person. You are filial, sincere and polite. Even though your father has been dead for many years, you still care about him more than anyone else!"

Ye Qingxue said, "The people sent by the Emperor originally intended to do something practical at the Marquis's residence before leaving, but now you say it's a misunderstanding. Do you think they will believe that? Will they just leave willingly like this? And how will they report back to the Emperor?"

Ye Cunjin gritted his teeth again: "With the help of the people from the Prince Ding's Mansion, they will agree to leave. Moreover, they have had a hard journey, so I will give each of them a thousand taels of silver for tea and water. I think they will not have any complaints."

"As for the charges... I will go to the palace early tomorrow morning to plead guilty to the Emperor and promise not to implicate them. In that case, they will no longer insist on thoroughly investigating the Marquis's residence."

Good, good, very good!

Ye Qingxue thought that in order to save Min Shi, they did not hesitate to use the connections of the Prince Ding's Mansion, and then gave the people sent by the emperor a thousand taels of silver as hush money.

Even Ye Cunjin, the young marquis, the young vice minister of the Ministry of War, this "chosen one," was willing to kneel down before the emperor to confess his crimes and accept punishment.

That's great, what a united family!

They were very united when they wanted to kill her, and they are still very united now that they want to save the Min family.

Seeing Ye Qingxue's silence, the old lady and the others assumed she had agreed. Originally, the emperor's men were supposed to arrest Ye Qingxue and interrogate her tonight, but now she wouldn't be arrested and interrogated.

Moreover, the Marquis's mansion promised her many benefits. As a young woman, she would need to rely on the Marquis's mansion to get married in the future, so there was no reason for her not to agree.

Madam Zhou looked deeply at Ye Qingxue, her eyes filled with guilt. Her daughter had been back for six or seven days, and every time she had told her that Min Shi was bad and had a bad heart, but she had never believed her.

But judging from tonight's events, her daughter had never lied to her. Her lord, her husband, was actually killed by Madam Min!

If her husband hadn't died, he would have always been her greatest support, and her life in the Marquis's mansion would have been even better than it is now.

Thinking of this, Madam Zhou couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

However, now that Ye Qingxue has agreed not to spread Min Shi's evil deeds, which would damage the reputation of the Marquis's mansion and ruin the marriages of her sisters, Madam Zhou feels gratified. Ye Qingxue has finally become more sensible.

Even though she's been jilted by Prince Ding, she still cares about her future marriage, doesn't she?

For a young woman to have a good marriage, she needs to rely on a powerful family background. If the reputation of a noble family is ruined, it will only harm her marriage prospects.

Madam Zhou was finally somewhat satisfied with Ye Qingxue's "sensible" behavior.

Although everyone had different focuses, they all had one thing in common: they all felt that Ye Qingxue's silence meant she had agreed, that she had compromised so that she could get a good marriage in the future.

Granny Hu had already helped Madam Min up from the ground.

Madam Min, having narrowly escaped death, was still shaken. She kept wiping away the tears that had welled up in her eyes with a handkerchief—of course, now only traces of those tears of fear remained.

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